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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Objective-C review
Message-ID: <55590@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 90 18:34:39 GMT
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <5286@stpstn.UUCP> cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) writes:
>Better standard *processes* will never eliminate the software crisis. But
>standard *products* might.  This is precisely the difference between
>Objective-C and C++. Objective-C is a name for an environment of standard
>products, called Software ICs. C++ is the name for yet another of a long
>line of standard *processes*, which will have the same impact on the
>software crisis as its predecessors; which is none at all.

Well, for what its worth, my several years experience with ObjC, and
with C++, is the exact opposite of Brad's claims.  All of which means,
I suppose, is, as always, caveat emptor.